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[The English engage the Spanish Fleet near Plymouth on 31 July 1588]
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Armada 1588. The action off the Isle of Wight. The pursuit up the Straits (two images) (Print)
[The Spanish Fleet off the coast of Cornwall on 29 July 1588] (Chart)
Armada 1588. 19th July The Armada off the Lizard. Also eight cameo portraits (Print)
The Spanish Armada Sailing from Ferrol-12th July 1588 (Starting for the conquest of England) (Print)
Armada 1588. The fireship attack off Calais. The flight up north (two images) (Print)
The Decisive Action with the Armada off Gravelines 30th July 1588 (Drake in The Revenge attacking Medina Sidonia in the San Martin) (Print)
The Spanish Armada off Calais, attack by fireships 28 Jul 1588. Also eight cameo portraits (Print)
The last of the Spanish Armarda (Drawing)
Armada 1588. 21st July the first engagement and the first break in the crescent formation. Also eight cameo portraits (Print)
The Start from Ferrol (Print)
Armada 1588. The action off the Isle of Wight and the pursuit up the straits (two images with cameo portraits of Sir M Frobisher and Sir John Hawkins) (Print)
Armada 1588. 22nd July the burning and capture Oquendos ship San Salvador Also eight cameo portraits (Print)
Defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Engraved for Mountague's History of England (Print)
Admiral Sir William Winter, in the Vanguard, engaging two large galleons of the Spanish Armada, July 29, 1588. From the Extra Supplement to the Illustrated London News, July 31st 1875 (Print)
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada (Print)
Two charts of the Spanish Armada, off Calais and in flight into the North Sea (Print)
The Spanish Armada dismasted and scattered in the gale. (Drawing)
Drake playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe, as the Spanish Armada is sighted. (Print)
Ships of the English fleet fighting the Armada in 1588: plate 2 A Naval battle (Print)
Defeat of the Spanish Armada (Print)
Ships of the English fleet fighting the Armada in 1588: plate 4 Naval battle near Portland (Print)
Ships of the English fleet fighting the Armada in 1588: plate 6 Naval battle near Plymouth (Print)
Defeat of the Spanish Armada (Print)
The Spanish Invincible Armada, attacked between Dover and Calais, and defeated by the English Fleet. Engraved for the Universal Magazine 1750 for J Hinton at the Kings Arms in St Pauls Churchyard London (Print)
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